Quotes by American Authors - Page 17

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.
Rachelle Doorley
By manipulating the physical configuration of [any situation], you make it produce a subset of the infinite pattern of [possibilities]. And even if you don't know how to play [above situation], you can still play with it.
Ian Bogost
Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?"And I did. Of course I did.
Jeff Lindsay
Did I tell you what happened at the play? We were at the back of the theatre, standing there in the dark, when all of a sudden I feel one of 'em tug at my sleeve, whispers, "Trudy look!" I said, "Yeah, goosebumps. You definitely got goosebumps. You like the play that much?" They said it wasn't the play that gave 'em goosebumps, it was the audience!I'd forgot to tell them to watch the play; they'd been watching the audience! Yeah, to see a group of people sitting together in the dark, laughing and crying at the same things...well that just knocked 'em out! They said, "Trudy, the play was soup, the audience, art."So they're taking goosbumps back with 'em into space. Goosebumps! Quite a souvenir. I like to think of them out there in the dark, watching us. Sometimes we'll do something and they'll laugh. Sometimes we'll do something and they'll cry. And maybe, one day we'll do something so magnificent, the whole universe will get goosebumps.
Jane Wagner
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E B White
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
James P. Carse
Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds!
CrimethInc.
The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?
Brom
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
Tennessee Williams
Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.
Victoria Scott
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the blame
Josh Stern
When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.
Meg Cabot
The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.
Steve Maraboli
There has to be blame and there has to be reasons and there has to be answers and if nobody can adequately accept the blame and give a sufficient reason and provide an answer, the love, no matter how strong it is, the family, no matter how tight it is, the life, no matter how good it is, will always buckle, then snap, then drown completely under the pressure of itself, the reality of the mistrust, and the weight of its own history, because if there are no answers, the blame and the guilt become stronger than the love and those two things together become a force that no amount of love can ever break down and overcome.
Jason Myers
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
Steve Maraboli
Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.
Gillian Flynn
When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.
Steve Goodier
Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.
Emma Chase
To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it's cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem--rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place blame.
Charlie Herrick
Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be a perfect family. They put the burden of stability on the child to avoid facing the fact that they, as parents, cannot provide it. The child fails and becomes the scapegoat for family problems. Once again, the child is saddled with the blame.
Susan Forward
JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.
Bill Lawrence
Stop blaming and start being!
Bryant McGill
When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.
Bryant McGill
The longer you blame the mirror, the longer you throw away the power to change what it is reflecting.
Steve Maraboli
She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and be amazed, and still not really hear them because they know they were not the ones the words were spoken to.
Marilynne Robinson
Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for causing them (34,36). Furthermore, research respondents are less likely to pity persons with mental illness, instead reacting to psychiatric disability with anger and believing that help is not deserved (35,36,39)."World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON
Patrick W. Corrigan
The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.
Warren Eyster
Blaming the woman for the loss of a child is like blaming the soldier for the loss of his life in battle.
Katherine Longshore
My point," Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.
Rick Riordan
... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Integrity and blame can never be friends.
Charles F. Glassman
Blame is the coward’s retreat.They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.
Steve Maraboli
Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!
John Taliaferro
Life don't care 'bout sorry's," Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go.
Erin Bowman
It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.
Nick Flynn
People do blame you for the things they do to you.
Octavia E. Butler
Engaged Audience Members are receptive to the messages of dangerous speech and to condoning group-targeted harm, but are not hardliners. For example, they may be easily influenced by charismatic leaders who promise to resolve their grievances, or be receptive to blame narratives. This could be any member of society, but certain types of people (based on demographic or other characteristics) may be disproportionately engaged.
Rachel Hilary Brown
Why must we hide, Behind walls built high?N' blame our lives, On him, her, I?
Kari L. Greenaway
You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough
John Mark Green
Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.
Patrick Ness
Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.
Thomas Sowell
A victim is someone who blames it all on someone else. Why give all the power to someone else and leave yourself powerless?
Christina Moss
Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.
Bobby Darnell
To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
Jacqueline Carey
What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.
Tamora Pierce
When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. You could blame whole nations. You could blame God. You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate of an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote.
Tim O'Brien
Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.
Rick Riordan
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
there's plenty of blame to go around.
Suzanne Collins
He looks at Mr. Vacanti and the man looks back at him with somehow gentle eyes. It surprises David to see the man has gentle eyes. It surprises him, even at thirty-seven, to discover that monsters can have gentle eyes. Something is terribly wrong with a world where monsters are allowed to have gentle eyes.
Ryan David Jahn
She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and bit her bottom lip. I found it to be such an erotic gesture that it aroused me. My eyes began making love to her in the dark. Unseen hands passed over her curves, quietly descending...trembling at her great beauty. I didn't even know her, but I wanted her. My gaze danced over her every curve, from her nose and lips, to her breasts and hips, surreptitiously. She had no idea of my thoughts. Shadow sex.
Rae Hachton
Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
Catherynne M. Valente
Who are the real monsters?
Beth Revis
A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
Colson Whitehead
Being a pumpkinhead is great.""Your HEAD is a PUMPKIN.
Justin Robinson
Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.
Lauren DeStefano
You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.
Lady Gaga
Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'("The Man In Crescent Terrace")
Seabury Quinn